Word: poste
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...According to William Safire's "New Political Dictionary," the word first came into general use in the presidential campaign of Warren Harding in 1920 (the word itself dates back to at least 1857), and is generally accepted in newspapers such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Since The Crimson's usage is backed up by an authority such as Safire (whose language, as his politics, is not on the liberal side), I have to rule for The Crimson on this one. But thanks to the astute reader who pointed that...
Changes are on view at your now friendly post office, or should we say postal retail outlet. Some 700 of the system's 33,000 post offices have morphed from bank-vault blandness into boutiques that sell such items as hats, neckties and Bugs Bunny trinkets while still providing a full line of postal services. The truly postally obsessed can choose a Pony Express sweatshirt or infant gear emblazoned with the words JUST DELIVERED. And customers are buying. "When a store replaces a post office, there is more than a 10% increase in revenues," says Nancy Wood, a postal-marketing...
...battle right now is in two-day package delivery, where the USPS has picked a nasty fight with the parcel-delivery services. In TV spots for its Priority Mail, the postal service touts its prices as far below those for the comparable service by FedEx or UPS. Yet the post office can't match their delivery record or track a piece of priority mail from shipper to receiver. An advertising review board rejected a FedEx challenge to the spots last year, but the two rivals remain in litigation. Says UPS chairman and ceo Jim Kelly: "I can hardly imagine that...
...credits her parents with the drive and self-confidence that took her through college at Howard University, an M.A. from Cornell, a teaching post at Howard and editing jobs that eventually landed her in Manhattan. Jason Epstein, now a Random House vice president and executive editor, was Morrison's boss in those days, and he has remained a friend ever since. "She was a wonderful colleague," he says, "always bright and apt and funny. I used to love to go sit in her office, just for the pleasure of it; it was full of plants, I remember. It was clear...
...there's plenty of that. Sunday, lawyers from the Jones camp hit the talk show circuit, putting out the message that all systems were go for a trial, set to begin May 27 in Little Rock. The President and Mrs. Clinton made the front page of today's Washington Post with a shot of them coming out of church holding hands yesterday. Meanwhile, Jones and her husband spent Saturday night eating high on the food chain, and she told TIME "I feel great...